The first official trailer is now out there. All we can say is WOW WOW WOW. Many of you have already
informed us that you wet your pants upon seeing it for the first time, some of you want to marry David
Tennant and quite a few couldn't breathe for at least 1 min 59 seconds.

[disclaimer - we will not be responsible for the costs of cleaning your sofa or the cost of your divorce
after viewing this trailer]

It's also available to add to your Watchlist over on Amazon Prime UK and Amazon Prime US.

Currently we know it will be available to watch in early 2019.

Neil Gaiman has teased in the past a date of Feb 2019.

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What other Good Omens news is there?

NYCC [New York Comic Convention for those who don't know] happened last weekend.

There was a Good Omens panel starring our favourite Crowley and Aziraphale, many questions were asked
by Whoopi Goldberg and answered by the cast and Neil Gaiman. We couldn't make it [booo] and unfortunately
at this moment in time, the panels have not been put up online anywhere either. All we know was that is
was Good.

Also at the NYCC was a very special elevator. You could choose to go to Heaven or Hell. Some images
have appeared online but we will leave you to source them for yourselves.

[Disclaimer - we didn't post any here mainly because we didn't want to feel responsible for more sofas
having to be cleansed or any more divorces upon seeing Crowley]

There was also the opportunity to get an exclusive poster. Many of you would have seen the images floating
about online. If you didn't, here it is in all its glory.

Well there will be a new illustrated edition with illustrations by Paul Kidby. The book will contain
12 full page illustrations much like the folio society editions of Small Gods and Mort.

As to when this will be available currently the answer is We Don't Know but we will let you know as
soon as we do.

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What we do have release dates for are some beautiful companion books to the series and a reissue on
CD of the Radio Four dramatisation.

THE QUITE NICE AND FAIRLY ACCURATE GOOD OMENS SCRIPT BOOK will be released on the 4th April 2019.

Written by Neil Gaiman The Quite Nice and Fairly Accurate Good Omens Script Book is a hardback book
which contains 400 pages, many of which have scenes that didn't quite make it to the screen.

(NOTE - This has a different ISBN to the one we told you was coming out on the 23rd April 2019 in our
last issue. Currently we have no clue as to why/how/what??? is going on with the two different ones being
advertised on certain bookshop sites)

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THE NICE AND ACCURATE GOOD OMENS TV COMPANION will also be released on the 4th April 2019

The Nice and Accurate Good Omens TV Companion will be your ultimate guide to the upcoming apocalypse.
It will feature incredible photographs, stunning location shots, costume boards, set designs and fascinating
character profiles and in-depth interviews with the stars and crew.

Troll bridge's contract states that they can continue raising money while they are still in a position
to spend money [on the film!] . Once the film has been completed and outstanding expenses covered, SnowGum
Films may need to close off DVD availability.

So if you want it on DVD or Blu-ray, order it now as you may not be able to get it later!

Not entirely sure where to start or what to say but I need to say it. I wanted to write this before
Terry's passing and send it to him, but always had something else to do, and then suddenly I couldn't
send it anymore. So I thought I would send it now, in the vague hope that someone might read it and something
good may come of it.

My name is Joe. I started reading Terry Pratchett what I was about 11, so 22 years ago. In Primary
School I was in trouble a lot, and was in special needs. I was coming out of primary school - where I
had recently been diagnosed as dyslexic and moved out of the slow learners' unit (the actual name) . I
was barely literate, could read but couldn't spell, my handwriting was appalling - it was actually illegible
(I spent every Saturday morning for 6 months in a special class to fix that) . Then…

My cousin gave my mum a book to read on holiday (Maskerade I think) and she got me a audio book of
Truckers as she found the book funny. I listened to repeatedly every night to get me to sleep (I am still
a insomniac) – I got a few more and eventually the tape wore through on Truckers. I had always liked
being read to, but never read.

My first English lesson at secondary school found me way out of my depth in set 2 of 5 (I had essentially
had no English or Maths lessons from 8-11 on account of being in the SLU and even now I still have no
idea how to construct sentences or what a verb noun etc actually are) . The teacher - Mrs May - said we
didn't have to do any work all year just read in the class. The next week I brought along a new book I
had gotten - the Colour of Magic, and LOTR. COM had a better cover so I read that (I read LOTR some years
later whilst listening to a unabridged Nigel Planer discworld audiobook from the library) . I very very
quickly read everything I could by Terry Pratchett. I then did a bit of hero worshiping at the Hay Festival
(about 6 miles from where I grew up) and met Terry but was too dumbfounded to really speak. He commented
on my coat (a sheepskin) and signed my books. I had brought 5 or 6. I continued to read.

The impact of Terry's work on my life is huge. He basically got me reading...and whilst didn't focus
me, he did give me the ability to enjoy books. He led me to question things. I read Small Gods when I
was 12 or 13 and this significantly broadened my horizons that were at that time Catholic School in rural
England. I did well in high school (shocking my parents) did well enough in college (exceptionally well
in Philosophy where I quite often referred to TP) to get to uni (where I studied religion among other
things) , then did my masters. It was only during the end of my final term at LSE that my tutor asked
me to get tested for dyslexia. And I said I didn't need to be tested as I knew I was I had just never
told anyone since the start of secondary school. Nevertheless she got tested, I got some help, and passed
(just – damn maths!) .

Most of his jokes went over my head (I'm still stuck on what the Rite of AshkEnte is a pun on) but
every Christmas I would religiously get a new Terry Pratchett book from my parents. I went as far as having
a reading copy and a shelf copy. The only portion of my room actually clean and organized was a small
altar to Terry's work. From Discworld I ventured into pretty much every fantasy book, then every sci fi
book...and then classics and history and well...it got to the stage about two years ago I was reading
a book every two days. Then either last year or the year before I got I Shall Wear Midnight, and that,
coupled with some major life upheavals lead to me not reading for two years – till about 3 months
ago.

I recently got a kindle which forced me to read (otherwise I am just a man with a unused kindle, as
opposed to a man with lots of unread books) . I am working my way solidly through all the books in order
at a pace of about 1 a week. I am not sure if I will read I Shall Wear Midnight. If I leave it unread...the
Discworld isn't finished. At least for me.

So what am I trying to say? Thank you I guess, but deeper than that. It is the gratitude of being given
ambition. (I know I also had some very good teachers, but, I wouldn't have been in their class if it wasn't
for his books) . And I am sorry I didn't write that sooner, so that he (or whoever read his mail) would
know that his words and story's had significantly impacted a young man's life.

And. If you are the parent of someone who is struggling to read. Try a Terry Pratchett Audiobook (Guards
Guards, or Small Gods are the best) . It's a million to one chance, but it worked with me.

This year Dublin's Culture Night and World Alzheimer Day came together on 21 September 2018. A coincidence?
Perhaps. But an opportunity too good to miss and Trinity College Dublin stepped up to the mark with an
event celebrating the university's connection with Sir Terry Pratchett, entitled, funnily enough, 'Terry
Pratchett at the Unseen University.'

If you went along to the evening hoping for scholarly or expert discussion on Sir Terry's works, you'd
probably be disappointed. This event was an eclectic, and, to be honest, at times, baffling, mix of sessions
by different university departments focusing on Sir Terry himself, but, more particularly on the research
possibilities opened up by the recent cataloguing of the unique collection of his works held by TCD in
the Long Room – apparently one of Sir Terry's favourite places when he was an adjunct Professor
of English at TCD back in 2010.

As one of the five UK legal deposit libraries, Trinity College Dublin is entitled to receive a copy
of every book published in the UK. Also, in 2009, the university's collection of Sir Terry's works was
augmented when Colin Smythe, his literary agent and an alumnus of TCD, donated a complete back-catalogue
of translated publications to the college – a donation which continues to this day. It has taken
years to catalogue the collection, but the work is now up-to-date, and the university is celebrating.

The evening kicked off with the Digital Humanities department who did their thing by stuffing the entire
English-language catalogue into a computer, jiggling it all about and asking the computer to spew forth
in a burst of word clouds. Which it did. Now, as someone who viewed critical analysis in the same vein
as vivisection when I was at university, this digitised version – even if word clouds are pretty
– was still anathema to me and deep inside I could feel the build-up of a dark word cloud of my
own – 'But why??' Yes, I know it's all in the name of research and linguistic analysis, but my question
still remains. Because I like the words just fine in the proper order Sir Terry gave them. That said,
you couldn't fault the department's enthusiasm and passion for their work. As well as word clouds of words
which were unique to each book and word clouds of words which are common to all books, they had also taught
the computer to understand the text rather than just recognise it so that it could throw up more meaningful
data. If you think that's easy, try explaining to a computer how to deal with a cat named You for a start!
That I liked. But the really cool results – evidenced by the oohs and aahs from the assembled onlookers
– were the interactive maps and graphs which can be created for research purposes. These included
such goodies as graphs showing the correlation between characters in one book or the relationships between
all the characters in all the books or map graphs plotting the Wyrd Sisters' journey from Lancre to Genua
in Witches Abroad. In the end, even I was grudgingly prepared to acknowledge that computer stuffing might
actually be worthwhile.

Next up was Jane Suzanne Carrol of Trinity's School of English (Children's Literature) who talked about
Sir Terry's books for children. So are boys sticky nosefuls of bogeys and girls great big feisty bottomless
ears? Well, they don't come much feistier than Tiffany Aching – who was, in Sir Terry's own words,
'very close to my heart'. Tiffany was the focus of the big question of the session: what is the difference
between the children's books and the other Discworld books? Is it the more realistic child-centred landscape
which bears a resemblance to the landscape in Sir Terry's own childhood? Or the questioning about 'who
is me' that doesn't feature as much in the more grown-up novels? I'm not sure a consensus was reached,
but it was an interesting journey nonetheless.

Librarian John McManus headed up his section 'Wrestling with the Orangutan' as he explained how he
went about cataloguing over 2,000+ items in the TCD collection, including books, games, videos and audio
cassettes. The Colin Smythe donation of translated texts proved challenging, with a lot of effort going
into tracking down editors, translators and illustrators in over 35 languages – more than originally
anticipated. There are editions in Moldovian, Georgian, Ukranian, Polish, Japanese, and Welsh and the
language with the most published editions other than English is German. Unfortunately, given the location,
there was one glaring omission in the translation list – Irish! So, if anyone fancies a go at translating
as Gaeilge, there's a gap in the market.

Exploring the translated collection further, James Hadley of the Trinity Centre for Literary and Cultural
Translation talked about his initial research carried out on a small, random selection of languages for
this event. Serious questions were asked. Such as how you translate the Britishness of the novels? Or
the puns and jokes? And the results were surprising. It's not unusual for literary translations to veer
away from word-for-word translation – to capture the spirit rather than the letter of the original.
But in the samples examined, it was clear that most of the Discworld translations stuck pretty close to
the original – they didn't shy away or alter that Britishness and the humour carried over into translation,
even if all the puns didn't quite make it. There was a particularly fascinating discussion about Death
– the character (who is clearly male) and the word (which is not always male – think 'la mort'
in French) . So what does a translator do about Death when 'death' is female? There wasn't a clear answer
to this question – not enough data to work from at this point in time – although from some
of the comments from audience members who had read Sir Terry in translation, it seems the juxtaposition
between the gendered word and the character only adds to the overall humour. And it all proved that the
collection is ripe for further research into the full body of translated texts. A dream job for an Unseen
Academical with a penchant for literary translation, perhaps?

As part of this eclectic celebration of Sir Terry's work, amongst all the academic shenanigans, it
was more than fitting on World Alzheimer's Day to also mark his contribution to the fight against the
'embuggerance'. And some of the most moving words of the evening came from Sir Terry himself - Sabina
Brennan of the Institute of Neuroscience (Brain Health) read out the entire text of his account of his
disease first published by the Alzheimer's Society in 2008. Ten years on, it is still a powerful testament
and manifesto against a nasty, ugly disease which robbed a brilliant man – and continues to rob
so many others - of so much. But Sir Terry's crusade was not in vain. As Helen Rochford Brennan, a fellow
Alzheimer's sufferer – or as Sir Terry put it: '… a person who is thoroughly annoyed with
the fact they have dementia' – testified. It was moving to hear Helen recall how in 2012, she watched
an interview with Sir Terry on Irish television's major chat show, The Late Late Show, when she herself
was in the throes of dealing with an early onset Alzheimer's diagnosis and how that interview inspired
her to reclaim her life after diagnosis. Helen is now the Chair of the European Working Group of People
with Dementia and Board member to Alzheimer Europe. She is living proof that it is possible to live well
with dementia and a fitting tribute to Sir Terry who did so much to prove that having Alzheimer's does
not mean you have to become your own disease.

Everyone has a birthday. If you know someone who would like a mention or if you would like your birthday
included in the listings, send us an email the month before your birthday and we will add it to the list!
Email Subject: Birthday

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* From: "Keith Owens"

FYI: Gmail marked the latest newsletter as spam. Hard to tell why, but you should check with your new
provider if they are doing anything that Gmail objects to.

DWM Replies: Thanks to Keith and several others who noticed that last month's issue was eaten by the
spam engines at google and also outlook.com etc. We hope that the transitional to our new servers will
help to reduce such occurrences.

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* From: "Noel Wray"

I had a look at the site for the Troll Bridge Short Movie, and I see that the price is 50 dollars.
Here's the thing, nowhere does it state which Dollars this is! Is it Yankee currency, Aussie or just Ankh-Morpork
Dollars? Since the producers/production is Australian, I would assume that that would be the currency,
but since I am in South Africa, that would make the DVD over R543.00, and even US it would be R760.00
for a simple DVD... Given that latest blockbuster motion picture on special edition 3D Blu-Ray with all
the other versions (2D Blu-Ray, DVD, Digital, et al.) is only R259.95, makes this a huge rip-off. After
having waited for almost twenty years for this to be made and finished, I think that it is not worth that.

Too Little! Too Late! For Too Much!!!

DWM replies: The amounts are in US dollars. We understand that you feel it is too much to own a copy
... Hopefully you can meet up with someone who does purchase a copy to get to see the movie at some point.

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* From: "Daft Wullie"

Just a quick word of thanks for all your efforts on the newsletter, and best wishes as you adjust to
the new mailing system. I've appreciated getting this for years now, and I can imagine how much work goes
into compiling it.

DWM replies: Thanks for the lovely comments. We always try to do our best.

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* From: "Nick"

Hey there I love receiving these emails from yourself. I was wondering if you printed a physical copy
and if so how much would it cost to have one posted to me? Keep up the great work.

DWM replies: Thanks for the letter Nick. Discworld Monthly has always been an electronic newsletter
we have no intentions of producing paper versions. That way, as they say, madness lies.

The award winning HisWorld exhibition at Salisbury Museum amazed attendees who were, for the first
time, given unparalleled access to the author's inner sanctum and writing room 'The Chapel' and the plethora
of interesting artefacts that surrounded him.

The book will be a collection of images from the exhibition with detailed descriptions.

It will remind those who were there of how sumptuous the displays were and for those who weren't able
to attend, a true glimpse of the magnificence of the exhibit.

Available in a hardback edition and a collector's, slipcased limited edition.

The Special Limited Slipcased Edition features an alternative cover design, an embossed, foil blocked
and numbered tip-in page, coloured page edgings and a marker ribbon. Also included with this collectable
book is a unique print signed by the artist Paul Kidby.

Collected together for the first time are seven full-cast BBC Radio dramatisations of Terry Pratchett's
novels, with star-studded casts including Martin Jarvis, Sheila Hancock, Anton Lesser, Philip Jackson,
Alex Jennings and Mark Heap.

Now being published for the very first time, the adaptations in this collection are:

Mort

Wyrd Sisters

Guards! Guards!

Eric

Small Gods

Night Watch

In addition to the Discworld radio Plays is the full-cast dramatisation of Only You Can Save Mankind.

Unfortunately Nation and Good Omens are not included in this collection.

Details of a Paperback reprint by William Morrow & Company have popped up.

Release date of 5th Feb 2019 is possibly coincide with the Amazon Prime release of the much anticipated
TV series. Currently we have no cover image but as soon as we do, we'll let you know via our social media
output.

Whilst we would love to get to every event and play to write reviews and articles about them, we just
don't have enough time, petrol and a wide enough spread of friends to borrow the couch for the night.
But you, our wonderful readers do have the time, petrol and often don't need the couches as the event
or play is on your doorstep!

We don't have English degrees here and you don't need one either to write something for Discworld Monthly!

PS. If you know of a play or event that we don't know about (shock horror) , email us. We like the
surprise!

If you want to try to sell your unwanted / duplicate Discworld items to other fans (and its legal for
you to do so) email us at with the subject
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buyers and sellers.

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Fancy a holiday to the land of the librarian and a universe full of wonders? Though it it would be
too expensive?

Then look no further...join Andrea, a life long STP fan and conservation biologist, at her guest house
in North Sumatra, Indonesia. Not only can you go jungle trekking to see if you can spot the librarian
and his friends. the monkeys (well, not actually friends..more like acquaintances) . You can also go on
village walks, do cooking class, go river swimming and so much more.

Have a look at her website and drop Andrea and email or whatsapp with any questions at all. There's
a 5% discount if you start your email with your favourite discworld quote!

"It was the special sort of beautiful area which is only beautiful if you can leave after briefly
admiring its beauty and go somewhere else where there are hot tubs and cold drinks. Actually staying there
for any length of time is a penance."

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Spenser Personal writes: I am an avid
fan of Discworld and have over the last 30 years I have collected clarecraft figures and have the complete
set (including rare pro types) .

Sadly we need to consider downsizing the collection and will begin to sell them on auction sites.

However, before I do, I wondered if you know of any fans that might be interested in buying parts of
the collection through your newsletter?

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Margaret Matthews writes: Some
years ago I bought my husband a Death of Rats pin. He wore a tie to work, usually a loud one with an unusual
pin. It was his favourite and drew quite a lot of comments and began several interesting conversations.

Alas he lost the pin and we have never been able to find another. It is not helped by me being unable
to recall where I bought it from. We are both retired now but I would love to be able to get him another
one. Has anyone got one for sale?

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We may not be perfect designers, or award winning journalists but we do our best to keep you all entertained
and informed about all things Terry. We do have some ethics though. We like our news to be current, up
to date and factual with a solid source. We don't like posting rumours but occasionally the source it
comes from is 98 percent solid so we will tell you it's a rumour and confirm it when we have a 100 percent
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Whilst you keep reading it, we'll keep on writing it because we love Terry's books just as much as
you do.